1796 documented Greek supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 1106 lesser and 335 minor spirit in power tier.
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Morphe (Greek: μορφή) is a lexical term meaning "form," "shape," or "outward appearance" attested in ancient Greek and discussed in New Testament exegesis. The provided sources show no coherent folkloric or mythic entity named "Morphe"; modern uses of the sequence "Morphe" in brand and project names are likewise non-mythic appropriations of the word or signifier.
Morrheus is an Indian chief and mortal warrior who opposes Dionysus and his thiasos in Nonnus’s epic Dionysiaca. He appears in the poem as a capable combatant who wounds members of Dionysus’s retinue, is subject to divine intervention, and is twice removed from battle by stratagems of dream and seduction.
Divine inspirational figures of ancient Greek religion and mythology who personify and authorize the arts, literature, and learned knowledge; traditionally enumerated as nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne in the Hesiodic account and associated with sacred springs and cult sites such as Mount Helicon and Delphi.
Mycene (Greek Mykēnē) is an eponymous female figure in Greek myth identified as a daughter of the river-god Inachus and the wife of Arestor. She is presented in the tradition as the naiad or local woman who gives her name to the city of Mycenae and functions as a place-bound genealogical figure rather than a universal deity.
Mydon is a mortal warrior-figure named in the corpus of ancient Greek epic, attested as a defender of Troy in the Iliad. He appears only briefly in the surviving summaries and reference entries as a named casualty, and may represent one or more minor Homeric combatants who share the name.
Mynes is a name applied to at least two mortal figures in Greek myth: a king of Lyrnessus slain by Achilles in the Trojan-cycle tradition (husband of Briseis), and a Lacedamonian genealogical figure recorded as father/ancestor in early Athenian genealogies (father of Pedias). He is a human/mythical mortal rather than a supernatural being.
Myrina is a name attested in Greek-language sources that functions as a toponym (several ancient towns and a modern town on Lemnos) and as the name of several female characters in Greek mythology; it is also used in modern taxonomy for a genus of butterflies. The supplied sources do not present a single, consistent supernatural entity called Myrina, and material about ritual, appearance, or powers for a unified mythic figure is absent from the provided corpus.
Myrine (variants Myrina, Myrinne, Myrinna) is a personal name attested in ancient Greek mythic tradition applied to several distinct women — including an Amazon queen, a possible eponym for the city of Myrina on Lemnos, a woman buried in the Troad mentioned in the Iliad, and a priestess of Aphrodite who was said to become a myrtle tree. The string also appears in modern contexts (fictional characters, corporate names, and a taxonomic genus) but these are non-mythic usages of the name.
An eponymous ancestor-hero in Greek myth, described in the sources as a son of Zeus and Eurymedusa and the progenitor of the people called the Myrmidons. The personal name became an ethnonym for that mythic nation and was later reused in literature and modern media as a label for warriors or unquestioning followers.
Myrtilus is a heroic figure in Greek myth, known as the charioteer of King Oenomaus of Pisa and commonly described as a son of Hermes. He sabotaged Oenomaus's chariot, causing the king's death; Pelops then threw Myrtilus into the sea, and the dying charioteer pronounced a curse that, in tradition, haunted Pelops' descendants. His body was said to have been recovered and honored at a sanctuary of Hermes, and local topography and stellar identifications (Myrtoan Sea, a taraxippus at Olympia, and a later association with the constellation Auriga) are recorded as variants.
Myrto (Ancient Greek: Μυρτώ, 'myrtle') is primarily an Ancient Greek feminine personal name attested across mythic and historical registers — borne by several minor mythological figures (including a possible eponym of the Myrtoan Sea, a named Maenad, and in some genealogical variants as mother of Myrtilus) and by later biographical/historical women (notably a contested Athenian figure tied to Aristides and Socratic tradition). The sources do not present a single, unified supernatural entity named Myrto.
Ancient Arabian polytheistic tradition with aniconic worship practices, centered around multiple local gods and deities. (Note: 1. Power tier should be "Ancient" as the sources describe multiple local deities and deities from other cultures (Baalshamin, Isis, Tyche, Dionysus), indicating deity-level powers. 2. Add sensory cues)
A class of female nature-spirits in ancient Greek religion whose being is bound to particular bodies of fresh water (springs, wells, fountains, streams). Naiads are local, embodied presences venerated in community cults and invoked in rituals of purification, healing, and life-cycle events, yet they may also act harmfully toward humans.
Naubolus is a proper name attested in two distinct domains in the supplied sources: a modern zoological genus of South American jumping spiders and a mythographic personal name appearing in Greek genealogical lists (not portrayed as a supernatural being). The sources do not present Naubolus as a spirit, deity, or monster and provide no ritual or cultic material.
Nauplius is a figure (or set of eponymous figures) in Greek mythic genealogies and heroic-cycle traditions, attested as a son of Poseidon and Amymone, cited as the father of Palamedes, and also recorded as the name of an Argonaut. The name also appears as a toponym (Nauplia), reflecting the common Greek practice of linking personal names and place‑names.
Nausidame (Ancient Greek: Ναυσιδάμη) is a named mortal woman in Greek mythological genealogies, recorded as daughter of Amphidamas and, in one tradition, as consort of the sun god Helios and mother of Augeas, king of Elis. Surviving notices are brief and present her only in this parental/genealogical role; alternative traditions give Augeas different parentage.
Neaera (Νέαιρα / Neaira) is a personal name applied in Greek tradition to several minor female figures—principally nymph-types (an Oceanid, a Thrinacian nymph consort of Helios, and a Thracian naiad wife of river-god Strymon). She functions mainly as a localized nature-associated mythic figure and as a genealogical consort/mother rather than as an independently culted major deity.
Nedymnos is a named member of the Kentauroi (centaurs) attested only in classical name-lists and modern catalogues; he appears as an individual centaur figure in compilatory sources rather than as a figure with independent narratives or cult. Attestations are limited to a Pauly-Wissowa catalogue entry (via Wikidata) and a modern compilation of Thessalian centaur names (Theoi).
Neleus (Greek Νηλεύς) is a mythological heroic-age king of Pylos in Greek tradition, son of Poseidon and Tyro in most accounts, husband of Chloris, and father of Nestor and other sons. He appears in genealogical and foundation narratives and is notably killed by Heracles after refusing to purify him for the murder of his family.
Nemea is primarily an ancient sanctuary and geographic place-name in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, known for its sanctuary of Zeus, the Nemean Games, and mythic associations such as the Nemean Lion and the death of the infant Opheltes. Modern usages of the name include a contemporary village and occasional cultural or taxonomic namesakes.
A singular monstrous lion of Greek myth that terrorized the region of Nemea and was slain by Heracles as the first of his Twelve Labours. Noted for an impervious golden hide and claws 'sharper than mortal swords,' its pelt becomes Heracles' emblem and protective mantle.
Nemesis (Greek: Νέμεσις), also called Rhamnousía in her local cult, is the personified goddess of distributive justice and retributive balance in ancient Greek religion and myth. She functions to restore due measure—rewarding or withholding according to desert—and punishes hubris and excessive fortune.
Neoptolemus (Ancient Greek Νεοπτόλεμος), also called Pyrrhus, is a mortal Greek heroic figure — the son of Achilles — who appears in the late stages of the Trojan War cycle. He is portrayed as a capable and decisive warrior whose actions (notably the killing of Priam and the sacrifice of Polyxena) have ritual, moral, and genealogical significance in later Greek tradition.
Nephele (Greek: Νεφέλη, 'cloud') is a personified cloud in Greek myth, appearing as a cloud-formed simulacrum fashioned by Zeus (used in the Ixion/Hera episode) and as the cloud-associated wife of Athamas who arranges the rescue of her children Phrixus and Helle via a flying golden ram.
Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) is the Roman god of freshwater and the sea, often treated in Roman religion as the counterpart of the Greek Poseidon and placed in a fraternal relationship with Jupiter and Pluto. The classical deity's name was later adopted in modern astronomy for the eighth planet of the Solar System, a cultural reuse noted in scientific sources.
Nereids are the class of female sea-nymphs in Greek myth, traditionally the fifty daughters of Nereus and the Oceanid Doris, associated especially with the Aegean Sea. They appear as beautiful young women who dwell in the sea and form the retinue of major sea-deities, acting as benevolent helpers of sailors and participants in mythic narratives.
Nereus is an archaic Greek sea-god, eldest son of Pontus and Gaia, known as an aged, truthful 'Old Man of the Sea' who fathers the Nereids and functions as a source of prophetic counsel; he shares traits with other sea-elders like Proteus and later recedes in prominence beneath Poseidon.
Nessus is primarily recorded in the supplied sources as a name from Greek myth — most prominently a centaur identified in modern reference works as the figure who caused the death of Heracles — and as a widely reused name in modern literature, gaming, and technical products. The provided materials constitute a disambiguation-style set rather than a single coherent supernatural tradition.
Nestor is presented in the supplied sources primarily as a personal and place name used across literary, geographic, maritime, scientific, and cultural contexts. While one cited headword refers to a mythological figure, the provided material contains no folkloric descriptions, supernatural attributes, or ritual traditions associated with Nestor.
Nete is a named member of a local Delphic triad described as "the three muses of the lyre" and is recorded as being worshipped at Delphi. Attestations are extremely limited: the surviving reference presents Nete as a cultic or personified musical principle associated with lyre practice at Delphi and does not equate this triad explicitly with the canonical nine Muses.
Nicostratus is attested in Greek mythographic and reference material as a son of Menelaus, variously said to be by Helen of Troy or by a slavewoman. He appears in genealogical listings and name-disambiguation contexts rather than as an active character in surviving narrative episodes.
Nike (Greek: Νίκη, Nikē) is the personification of victory in ancient Greek tradition, represented in art and cult contexts as a winged female figure associated with triumph in military, athletic, and civic spheres.
Nilus (Greek: Νεῖλος, Latin: Nilus) is the Greek personification of the Nile River attested in classical genealogies as a son of Oceanus and Tethys and historically referenced as a river-deity who received cultic honors in Egypt, notably at Niopolis. The name also functions separately as a Christian personal name borne by several saints and clerics; those human bearers are distinct from the river-personification.
Niobe is a mortal figure of Greek myth, daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion, famed for boasting of her many children and for grieving them when Apollo and Artemis slew the Niobids; she is transformed into a perpetually weeping rock on Mount Sipylus in later tradition.
A Niobid is one of the children of Niobe and Amphion in Greek myth; collectively the Niobids are mortal royal offspring slain by Apollo and Artemis as punishment for Niobe's boastful comparison with Leto. They function as tragic victims and exempla of the consequences of human hubris toward the gods.
A pair of young Trojan warriors in Virgil's Aeneid whose intense companionship and joint night-raid into the Rutulian camp exemplify pietas, youthful valor, and the tragic cost of war. Presented as mortal literary personae rather than supernatural beings, their story functions as an intertextual echo of Homeric companion-pairs and as a moral-poetic exemplum within Augustan epic.
Nomion is not attested in the provided sources as a coherent supernatural being or folkloric class. The term appears primarily as a taxonomic epithet in lepidoptery and as a modern proper name in popular culture; a single Wikidata label links the name to a supposed ruler in Caria but this is uncited in the supplied materials.
Nonacris (Ancient Greek Νώνακρις) appears in classical sources as a multi-faceted name: an Arcadian town and its springs, a mythic woman associated with that place (wife of King Lycaon in some accounts), and in some sources identified as the naiad of the town's springs. Ancient writers and modern summaries treat the personal and place identities as interwoven rather than wholly separate.
Norax is a mythic founder-figure in classical Greek and Roman tradition, described as a son of Hermes and Erytheia who led settlers from Iberia to Sardinia and founded the city of Nora. He functions as a demi-divine eponymous ancestor used by ancient authors to explain the origin of a Sardinian city and its links to Mediterranean mythic genealogy.
Nyctimus (Ancient Greek: Νύκτιμος, Nyktimos) is a mythological Arcadian prince and a son of King Lycaon, attested in classical genealogies as a successor to Lycaon's kingship. He is presented in sources as a human royal figure whose narrative functions address themes of familial impiety, divine retribution, succession (ultimogeniture), and local eponymy rather than as a supernatural being.
In ancient Greek folklore a nymph is a minor female nature deity who personifies and inhabits particular natural features (springs, trees, mountains). Nymphs are divine yet not immortal and are typically depicted as maidens with localized powers such as healing, divination, and shapeshifting.
In Greek myth the Oceanids (Ancient Greek: Ὠκεανίδες, Ōkeanídes) are a vast class of nymphs, described as daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. They are dispersed spirits associated with watery places and related functions—often linked with springs, companionship of goddesses, and care of youths—and include a few individually significant figures within their large poetic roster.
Oceanus (Greek: Ὠκεανός) is a primordial Titan in ancient Greek cosmology who personifies the great river that encircles the world and is named as father of the river gods (potamoi) and the Oceanids. He functions as a cosmological boundary-stream and genealogical progenitor in multiple Greek traditions and appears in literary theogonies and Greco-Roman art.
Ocyrhoe (Anc. Greek Ὠκυρόη / Ὠκυρρόη) is a name applied to at least five distinct female figures in Greek myth — variously Oceanid, naiad, or the prophetic daughter of the centaur Chiron. The bearers are water-associated nymphs who serve etiological, maternal, and narrative roles (mothers of eponymous rivers and heroes, objects of divine pursuit, or punished prophets).
Odigitria is primarily an iconographic epithet and toponym found in Byzantine and modern contexts: a Marian title (Panagia Odigitria / Hodegetria) denoting a specific type of Virgin Mary image regarded as a guide or pointer to Christ, and a place-name applied to churches, monasteries, settlements, and an archaeological Minoan cemetery in southern Crete.
Odysseus is a legendary mortal king of Ithaca from ancient Greek epic tradition, best known as the protagonist of Homer's Odyssey. Celebrated for his intellect, craft (mêtis), and long nostos (homecoming), he functions as an exemplar of heroic cunning rather than a supernatural being.
Oeceus (also Oiceus; Ancient Greek: Οἰκιάδαο) is a mytho-historical king of Olenus recorded in Greek genealogical tradition. He is attested as the father of Dexamenus and an ancestor of Dexamenus’s children (Theronice, Theraephone, Eurypylus, and Deianira/Mnesimache/Hippolyte).
Oecles (also Oicles, Oicleus, Oecleus) is a mortal figure in Greek heroic genealogies, an Argive noble presented chiefly as the father of the seer Amphiaraus and as one of the companions of Heracles in the campaign against Troy. He functions mainly as an ancestral/associative figure within Argive mythic networks; sources vary on his parentage and on details of his wife's parentage.
Oeneus is a mytho-historical king of Calydon in Greek tradition, remembered as a dynastic patriarch who hosted gods and heroes, received the vine from Dionysus, presided over harvest sacrifices, and whose familial and ritual actions precipitated major episodes such as the Calydonian boar hunt and subsequent dynastic struggles.
Oenomaus (Ancient Greek Οἰνόμαος, Oinómaos) is a mythic king of Pisa in Elis who, traditionally a son of Ares in some accounts, challenges suitors of his daughter Hippodamia to lethal chariot races. His death at the hands of Pelops and the ensuing curse and commemorative traditions link him etiologically to the foundation-memory of the Olympic Games and to the doom on Pelops' descendants.
A named mountain nymph of Mount Ida in Greek myth, Oenone is best known as the first wife of Paris of Troy. Associated with prophecy (taught by Rhea) and herbal healing, her narrative centers on love, betrayal, and varying accounts of revenge and suicide following Paris's abandonment.
Oenotrus (Ancient Greek: Οἴνωτρος, Oínōtros) is a mythic human figure in Greek tradition, the youngest son of Lycaon of Arcadia, credited—along with his brother Peucetius—with an early migration from Arcadia to the Italian peninsula and as the eponymous founder of Oenotria (southern Italy/Calabria). Classical sources present him as an ancestral/colonizing founder rather than a supernatural being.
Ogyges is a primeval mythic ruler in Greek tradition, conventionally linked to Boeotia/Thebes (with an alternative tradition making him first king of Attica) and eponymous for the prehistoric age and the so‑called Ogygian deluge. His name (Ogygian) functions adjectivally to mark the very earliest, primordial times in Greek chronology and myth.
Oicles (Anc. Greek Οἰκλῆς / Οἰκλεύς) is a mortal figure in Greek mythic genealogies and heroic-cycle narratives, known primarily as the father of the seer Amphiaraus and as a warrior who accompanied Heracles. He functions in sources as a heroic ancestor and connective node linking seer-lines, kings, and locales (Troy/Troad, Thebes, Arcadia) rather than as a supernatural being.
A titular elder of the sea applied across Greek epic and local myth to ancient sea‑deities (notably Nereus, Proteus, Phorcys, Pontus) who are prophetic and often shapeshifting; in the Sinbad folktale corpus the name (Arabic: Šayḵ al‑Baḥr) denotes a parasitic, murderous sea‑monster that latches onto travellers.
Olenus is a personal and place-name in ancient Greek tradition: a set of mythic individuals who serve as eponymous founders, rulers, or kin within genealogies, and a coastal polis in ancient Achaea whose identity is tied to those mythic traditions. Surviving references preserve names and brief roles rather than a consistent supernatural characterization.
Olganos (Ancient Greek: Ὄλγανος) is a local river-god attested in Macedonian context. Presented as the eponymous divine personification of a river, he is recorded as a son of Beres and brother of Mieza and Beroia and is known from local cult material including an inscribed bust found at Kopanos/Emathia, dated to circa the 2nd century CE.
The Olympian gods are the principal deities of the ancient Greek pantheon, traditionally numbered as twelve and conventionally said to reside on Mount Olympus. They include major figures such as Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus.
Onesimachus (Ancient Greek: Ὀνησίμαχος) is attested in the provided source only as a personal name appearing in Greek mythic genealogical material. He is cited as an alternative father of Amarynceus in one variant; the source treats him as an ordinary mortal figure within genealogical traditions rather than a supernatural being.
A class of mountain nymphs (Ὀρειάς, Oreiás) in Greek mythology, the Oreads are local nature spirits associated with mountains and high places and commonly depicted as companions or retinues of deities such as Artemis, Pan, and Dionysus. They appear in mythic narratives and an epigrammatic source where they participate in founding a place of worship.